David Wilkerson Devotions

Take all of your unbelief to the Lord and lay it at his feet. He wants to flood your soul with confidence in his willingness to answer your prayers with abundance.

Like Abraham, believers are counted as righteous because we heed the same call to entrust all our tomorrows into the Lord’s hands

We are ordered by scripture to commit everything into God’s mighty hand of strength and power. He will make a way for his children, no matter how impossible circumstances look.

We should not allow the devil to dig up our past and wave it in our face when all our sin has been covered by Christ’s blood. God casts our sin in the depths of the ocean. It is finished.

If we are suffering, it may be that God is working things out for us in his own way. These times in our lives are often when God is unfolding a master plan known only to him.

Peter said, “[We] are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time” (1 Peter 1:5, NKJV). I see in this a prophecy that in these last days God is once more going to reveal his keeping power to his people.

Old Testament saints knew God in a way we know very little about. They knew him as the Lord of hosts! God is referred to by this name more than 200 times in the Old Testament. This majestic title resonates throughout the psalms.

 - “The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge” (Psalm 46:7, NKJV).

 - “O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty like you, O Lord? Your faithfulness also surrounds you” (Psalm 89:8).

 - “Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer” (Psalm 84:8).

A thrilling Old Testament story in 2 King 6 best illustrates what it means to be kept by the power of God. Ben-hadad, king of Syria, declared war on Israel and marched against them with a great army. As his forces advanced, he often called his war counsel together to plan the next day's strategy. However, the prophet Elisha kept sending word to the king of Israel, detailing every move of the enemy troops. In fact, on several occasions, the Israelites escaped defeat because of Elisha's warnings.

David tells us in the psalms that it is God who makes wars to end and adds, “Be still and know that I am God...” (Psalm 46:10, NKJV). The Hebrew word for ‘still’ is raphah, which means to cease, let alone, become weak, feeble. It is from the root rapha, which means to mend and be made thoroughly whole by the hand of a physician.

God's ultimate goal for all his children is abundant life. He never intended for us to go through life focused on our sins and failures. The good news is that we serve a God of absolute love and mercy who desires to bring his children into a place high above all turmoil. However, we cannot take our place with Christ in the heavenlies until we are fully identified with his death and resurrection.